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    Book Four of Fate Laughs
    Book Four of Fate Laughs
    Book Four of Fate Laughs
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    Book Four of Fate Laughs

    By Janus Kane

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    Fate Laughs is a study of what happens when the hate, bigotry and racism that a person puts out into the universe comes back to them with a vengeance.

    Book Four is told from the perspective of Calub Johnson, a black teenager, whose life is intertwined with that of the Whitaker family in more ways than he could have imagined. Their destinies were linked when Calub was still in the womb, now he takes it upon himself to get justice for his own father who paid the ultimate price as a result of Jim Whitaker's actions. What felt right in the moment has left him with a lifetime of guilt. His self-imposed penance is to do what he can to help what's left of the Whitaker family.

    Fate Laughs is a dark and disturbing story about a Southern family that gets caught in the backlash of their own hatred and bigotry. The story is set in the late 1900's in the fictional town of Altuna, Georgia.
    WARNING: this story contains graphic language and content that some, nay most, will find offensive, but I assure you it is not gratuitous and lessons are learned.
    Wanda hates 'niggers and Jews.' She doesn’t have much choice, given her upbringing. Wanda is the 15-year-old by-product of life in the Whitaker household. It is a life that revolves around hatred and the teachings of a local white supremacist group. ‘Fate Laughs’ is a contemporary story that follows the tragic events that befall a Southern family that has made hate the cornerstone of their lives. As perspective cycles between the members of the Whitaker family, they learn what can happen when fate laughs at everything you believe to be true.
    Jim Whitaker is the unquestioned patriarch of the family. Life has dealt him some rough blows and he spends a lot of his time trying to forget a very troubling childhood. Now, as an adult, he believes knows just who they are supposed to hate and he steers his family in that direction, with a firm hand. Betty Whitaker loves her husband and children but time has not been her friend. She is broken and resigned to living with Jim’s verbal abuse – until that abuse finally turns physical. Shooter is Wanda’s 17-year-old brother. It is his task to hold the threads of their family together after their father tears it apart. Maimed and bitter, he realizes that ‘The Purity League’ (the white supremacist group that runs their beloved town) may not be the panacea he's been taught to revere.
    With the help of their new friends; Amelia – the outsider from the big city and Calub – the son of a local black couple, the Whitaker children tackle the arduous task of rebuilding their lives and holding what’s left of their family together.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJanus Kane
    Release dateAug 16, 2017
    ISBN9781935367642
    Book Four of Fate Laughs
    Author

    Janus Kane

    Marchbooks is a small publishing company located in Tennessee. We strive to offer books that are fun, interesting and thought provoking. We currently have two authors: Janus Kane who writes for adults and M.J. Claire who writes for tweens and young adults. Janus Kane makes his primary residence in New York City. Would-be lawyer, sales rep for a multi-line distributor, telemarketer, bartender and Kirby vacuum cleaner salesman are a few of the career paths that Kane has followed. Interesting as they were, they were all dead ends. Ultimately, fate put a pen in his hand. His first novel, 'The Little Insanity' was the result. It is a novel that shines a spotlight on the complexities of relationships and addictions. With the fast pace of a literary soap opera this first novel will be sure to please readers who follow these characters on their path of self-discovery or destruction. The 'Fate Laughs' series is another foray into the lives of a very dysfunctional group of people. This southern family is ruled by an authoritarian husband/father and his philosophy of hate. This toxic environment blows up in their faces in very short order, leaving the children to pick up the pieces. When Janus wrote this novel, we feared that it might be too 'out there', too far fetched, given the themes of bigotry and white supremacy. Unfortunately, we were all to be proven wrong as each day shows us more examples of this kind hatred in our current world. M.J. Claire is a quiet, middle-aged woman who has always had a passion for books, adventure, magic, fantasy and animals. You will find that most of her stories embody at least some of those themes. .

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      Book Four of Fate Laughs - Janus Kane

      Book Four of Fate Laughs

      Calub

      by Janus Kane

      Published by Marchbooks

      Distributed by Smashwords

      Copyright 2016 Elizabeth Marchand

      This is a pure work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

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      Other Titles by Janus Kane

      Books I II & III of Fate Laughs - Available through Smashwords

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      Fate Laughs

      by Janus Kane

      Sometimes, fate laughs. Sometimes, life looks you dead in the eye and has a good old belly laugh at your expense. Sometimes, everything we think we know about ourselves, everything we believe about ourselves; our values, our beliefs, what we want, who we are, is proven to be a lie.

      Sometimes Fate Laughs at the hate you send out into the universe and sends it back to bite you in the ass?

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      Calub

      Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together, and do so with all your heart. ~Marcus Aurelius

      It wasn’t much of a struggle. Jim Whitaker had only regained a fraction of movement in his arms and none in his legs.

      Calub stared into the man’s eyes as he pressed the pillow firmly over his mouth and nose. He wanted to see the light fade from those eyes. He needed to see it. He had been waiting most of his life for this.

      Ever since his mother had told him about his father’s tragic death, Calub had known that there was more to the story. He would find out what it was, or die trying.

      Fate had arranged the rest for him. After Calub’s chance meeting in the woods, with the Whitaker progeny, it became his quest to follow the family’s every move. It did not surprise him that the Whitaker children were mean and sadistic bigots.

      Calub made it crystal clear that he would not allow them to vent their dysfunction on his innocent half-sister.

      It turned out that there was little else for Calub to do. The family imploded with absolutely no help at all. The mother was dead, the father was paralyzed and the son had been viciously maimed; it was pretty much a clean sweep. But Calub still needed some answers. He needed to hear the full story.

      He had been working at the hospital for over a year now. It made him feel good to help people with their recovery. He was

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